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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 28
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Wealth comes out of the earth—Wisdom cannot be purchased—The fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
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Surely</span> there is a <sup>a</sup><a href="job/28/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR mine.">vein</a> for the silver, and a place for gold <i>where</i> they fine <i>it.</i>
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Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass <i>is</i> molten <i>out of</i> the stone.
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He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; <i>even the waters</i> forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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<i>As for </i>the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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The stones of it <i>are</i> the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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<i>There is</i> a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
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The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
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He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="job/28/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB He restricts the rivers and streams.">He</a> bindeth the floods from overflowing; and <i>the thing that is</i> hid bringeth he forth to light.
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But where shall <sup>a</sup><a href="job/28/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Wisdom of.">wisdom</a> be found?  and where <i>is</i> the place of understanding?
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Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
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The depth saith, It <i>is</i> not in me: and the sea saith, <i>It is</i> not with me.
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It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed <i>for</i> the price thereof.
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It cannot be valued with the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/28/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 13: 12.">gold</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="job/28/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 9: 28.">Ophir</a>, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it <i>shall not be for</i> jewels of fine gold.
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No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom <i>is</i> above <sup>a</sup><a href="job/28/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 8: 11 (10-11); Prov. 20: 15.">rubies</a>.
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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
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Whence then cometh wisdom?  and where <i>is</i> the place of understanding?
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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
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For he looketh to the ends of the earth, <i>and</i> seeth under the whole heaven;
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To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
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And unto man he said, Behold, the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/28/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reverence.">fear</a> of the Lord, that <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="job/28/28b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, the Standard of Righteousness; TG Wisdom.">wisdom</a>; and to depart from evil <i>is</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="job/28/28c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Understanding.">understanding</a>.
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